Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment /
Dunsch, Felipe A.
Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment / Felipe A. Dunsch, David K. Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w23749 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23749. .
August 2017.
We used a randomized management consulting intervention with 80 public-sector healthcare facilities in Nigeria to study the role of information, training, and supervision on the adoption of improved organizational practices. Facilities that received detailed improvement plans and nine months of implementation support--including regular visits to monitor progress and set intermediate goals related to the plans--showed large, significant short-term effects on the adoption of practices that were under the responsibility of facility staff. Facilities that received general improvement advice but no implementation support showed no change in practices. Implementation support appears crucial for improvements, especially in contexts without market incentives for the adoption of effective managerial practices.
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment / Felipe A. Dunsch, David K. Evans, Ezinne Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w23749 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23749. .
August 2017.
We used a randomized management consulting intervention with 80 public-sector healthcare facilities in Nigeria to study the role of information, training, and supervision on the adoption of improved organizational practices. Facilities that received detailed improvement plans and nine months of implementation support--including regular visits to monitor progress and set intermediate goals related to the plans--showed large, significant short-term effects on the adoption of practices that were under the responsibility of facility staff. Facilities that received general improvement advice but no implementation support showed no change in practices. Implementation support appears crucial for improvements, especially in contexts without market incentives for the adoption of effective managerial practices.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.